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Post #1060743

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chyron8472
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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30-Mar-2017, 3:23 PM

I am a Christian–a Baptist, living in the Bible Belt. Granted, I am a Christian Democrat, but there we are. I think myself a moderate, as the position of where my views are on the conservative-liberal continuum depend on the issue.

Obama is a Christian. To say otherwise is to forget the time where he had to distance himself from his long-time Christian pastor (and, according to media coverage, mentor) in 2008 when said pastor was being inflammatory against Hillary (in a rather racist fashion). Obama waited a long time to disavow his association, but ultimately did so when the guy wouldn’t stop despite being asked to.

And Obama has given a rather fantastic speech specifically and at length about his faith at the Sojourners’ Call to Renewal conference in 2006.

In 2006. Before he ever decided to run for president.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCZOyGIKp_E
https://sojo.net/articles/transcript-obamas-2006-sojournerscall-renewal-address-faith-and-politics

This speech about his faith was one of the reasons I liked him so much when he ran back then.

JEDIT: He talks about when he gave his life to Christ at 14:50 in that video. I’m watching this video as I write this and it really speaks to me, as a man of faith myself, as coming from a man whose faith is genuine and heartfelt.